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This book is a collection of three essays, written by theoretical physicist Gerard ’t Hooft, philosopher Emanuele Severino, and theologian Piero Coda, and inspired by the talks the three authors made as keynote speakers at the conference “Determinism and Free Will”, held at the Cariplo Foundation Congress Center in Milan on May 13, 2017.

This Introduction has been completed at the University of Leiden, in October 2017.

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Scardigli, F., ’t Hooft, G., Severino, E., Coda, P. (2019). Introduction. In: Determinism and Free Will. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05505-9_1

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